The Bookshelf for boys and girls: Nature and Outdoor Life part 3 (1912)
University Society, New York · New York : University Society · leaf 127
. in width. It is of a thick, leatherytexture; outside of a dark bluish brown, and in-side of a dark brownish red, with the exceptionof the base and those parts surrounding thespadix, which are whitish yellow. The spadix isonly 9 in. long, and nine lines across. When this account of the huge… … THE GIANT JACK-IN-THE-PULPIT CURIOSITIES OF PLANT LIFE 107 covery. Later,raised, and theproved. seeds were sent,accuracy of the the plants Having placed one of the flowers on the head of statements a young girl and photographed it to show its fitness for the purpose, we see that now it be- A GIANT…
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